White House: We're Not in the 'Immediate Gratification Business'

ABC News' Jake Tapper and Yunji de Nies report:

President Obama has spent a week in Asia, with high level meetings across four countries. But critics argue all that time and jet fuel has not been well-spent. The President leaves South Korea today with arguably little show for it.

After Obama's joint press conference with President Lee Myung-Bak, White House senior advisor David Axelrod defended the visit to reporters in the hall of the Blue House.

"This not an immediate gratification business. I understand that Washington's in the immediate gratification business," Axelrod said, "We made solid progress on climate change that's been reported. We've helped him clarify understanding on security issues and obviously on economics. But nobody came expecting that all of these things would be resolved on this trip, this is part of laying the foundation."